Originally Posted by
wayan
So this is my first RCC at IAD in a looong time. Since my dot.com days in the early 00's. Back then I remember it as a sumptuous affair - food, drinks, private escorts to board.
The F lounge did private escorts in certain cities, but I've been flying UA since the mid '80s, and had quite a number of Int'l F trips from the early 90s through early '00s (when things were as good as they ever got) and I never, not once, ever had a sumptuous affair in any UA lounge. That isn't to say I didn't have pleasant experiences, with some decent drink and snack. Inflight, I had some sumptuous on occasion. But on the ground, no.